ġetæl
Old English had no word for a score of points in a game. The nearest word is ġetæl, "number, count".
ġetæl is any count or reckoning, for example the number of people or of days.
Meaning: number of points accrued (noun)
Which one should you use?
scoru, where it appears, meant "twenty" or "a notch", not points.
How do you pronounce it?
yeh-TAL
Did you know?
- "Score" came from Old Norse skor, "notch". Twenty was counted with one notch on a tally stick, so "score" also came to mean twenty.
Examples in context
- Hwæt is þæt ġetæl?What is the count?
